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In the 5th Century A.D., a Middle Eastern Scholar named Dionysius studied the references to Angels in the Scriptures and other non-biblical sources. He concluded that there were nine classes of angels that were divided into three spheres.
In the first sphere there were angels nearer to God, Seraphims, sometimes called "the burning ones" because they are the closest to God and radiate pure light, Cheribums, guardians of the gates of Eden and Thrones, called the 'many eyed ones' , with the duty of carrying out God's decisions.
In the second sphere there were Dominions whose job was to regulate the duties of other angels and ensure that God's wishes were carried out, and Virtues, the angels of Grace who brought God's blessings to Earth, usually in the form of miracles and Powers.
In the last and third sphere there were Principalities, the guardian angels of cities, nations and rulers, and guards against the invasion of evil angels, Archangels, who commanded God's armies of angels and last, but not least, Angels, the celestial beings closest to humans who acted as intermediaries between the Almighty and humanity, often called guardian angels.
Chanyeol was an archangel. One of the most beautiful, strongest and bravest.
Everyone in heaven knew him, everyone loved archangel chanyeol who often saved the celestial army from being defeated.
He had everything a good soldier needed, he was smart, fast, strong and also merciless.
He was created for that, his only reason to live was being a good soldier, his long life was dedicated to that, to lead the army and to never lose.
Wars were not rare thing, angels often had to fight against Lucifer's army, sometimes against even things more ancient than God.
When he wasn't busy in a war he trained young archangels.
Was he happy? was he satisfied? Of course, that was his life, he couldn't think about better things.
Being a soldier of god satisfied him.
Everything was perfect, till he made a mistake.
One big mistake that costed everything to him.
He fought with a Cherubin. He was sure that Lucifer had something in his mind those days, demons were quite active among humans, there had been lot of possession cases, but other angels told him that he was overreacting.
" nothing strange, the usual demons' things, you should relax Chanyeol, really. You're a child of war but this doesn't mean that war is behind every corner" told him other archangels.
But he trusted his instinct, so since other archangels didn't want to listen to him he tried to reach angels of higher spheres.
They laughed at him and for the first time in his life the great warrior chanyeol felt humiliated. A new feeling to him.
No one wanted to listen to him, so he decided that he would have done it alone, but when he tried to leave Heaven Cherubins at the gates didn't let him to go out.
He was so furious. Not the fury of the battle, that was a new feeling, again.
A feeling that he couldn't control, so he hit the cherubins, very hard.
Few minutes later the leaders of his sphere called him.
" You're going to be punished, not only you disobeyed to orders, but you assaulted two cherubins. Chanyeol, you know how proud they are of themselves, they're furious that an archangel did that to two of them. They asked for a very hard punishment, but we talked to them, since you've always been good and always helped heaven, we managed to find a deal."
" so won't i be punished?"
" they wanted to make you fall, chanyeol"
He shivered.
He knew that he made a big mistake, he knew that he deserved a punishment, but that? He'd have preferred to die.
When angels fell they lost their wings, they lost their divine grace. They became humans, just weaker and sadder.
Imagine being a powerful and beautiful angel and then finding yourself being a miserable human.
" but we thought that was too extreme"
" so? what is my punishment?"
" you'll work as guardian angel"
Chanyeol looked at his chiefs and then laughed.
" is this a joke?"
" no chanyeol and remember that if we didn't help you, you would have been a fallen angel"
" helped me? i'm going to work as a guardian angel, you didn't help me at all!"
" you made a mistake, you also gave a false alarm, so you're going to pay"
" just because nothing happened, it doesn't mean that i wasn't right, i'm sure that Lucifer is working on something"
" We're talking about Lucifer, he's always working on something, Chanyeol, but...you need a break, we think that this new experience won't be bad for you. It will help you to have a new...vision of things"
" a new vision of things?" he sighed
" Tomorrow an angel will teach you the things you'll have to know and you'll start soon"
" till when?"
" till you're ready"
" what does that even mean?"
" when you're ready, you'll know it"